He had no cheers for Fauci.
Woody Harrelson demolished Dr. Anthony Fauci on Joe Rogan’s podcast Saturday, accusing the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of some “extraordinarily evil s–t.”
The 63-year-old onetime “Cheers” star slammed Fauci for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and for his controversial push of azidothymidine, or AZT, during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, the Daily Mail reported.
“He started with the AZT thing,” the three-time Oscar nominee said. “And, you know, AZT was known to be a highly toxic, really ineffective drug, and of course, that was the one they picked.
“And so they started using that again, and I don’t know how many people got killed,” he told Rogan. “That killed friends of mine. AZT was very toxic and they finally had to yank it. And now they use different chemical cocktails, but like, Fauci did some extraordinarily evil s–t.
“And he knows what he did,” he added.
Fauci, 84, has been a favorite punching bag for conservatives, including over vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic, which anti-vax advocates criticized as overbearing.
Fauci, who took over as head of the NIAID in the mid-1980s, was given a preemptive pardon by former President Joe Biden on his last day at the White House amid fears once President Trump returned to office he would be subject to charges that he lied to Congress.
Once inaugurated, Trump pulled Fauci’s taxpayer-funded security detail.
In his own shot at the immunologist, Rogan said Fauci could still find himself in hot water.
“These states can still sue him,” he said. “There’s a lot of issues with being pardoned that I don’t think Biden took into consideration, or Fauci took into consideration either. I think he just wanted anything to protect him because he knew it was coming.
“It’s just a bummer that someone had that kind of power for so long and was such a f—-ing monster.”
Meanwhile, Harrelson fawned over Robert Kennedy Jr., Tump’s new health secretary, calling the notorious anti-vaccine advocate “heroic” and “a man who cares deeply.”
